Biology

Physiology

Carracosta resembles a bipedal, blue-colored sea turtle. Its stomach is a pale blue, and deep blue rocky structures encrust its face, back, and the sides of its chest forming a "mask" and shell. Its flippers are long, with black fingerlike protrusions at the tips. Carracosta has a thick tail and short legs with two-toed feet.

Gender differences

None.

Special abilities

Carracosta have extremely strong jaws. They also have enough power in their slap to open a hole in the bottom of a tanker.

Behavior

Habitat

Carracosta once lived in the sea millions of years ago. Today, the Pokémon is considered extinct.

Minor appearances

Pokédex entries

Carracosta, the Prototurtle Pokémon and the evolved form of Tirtouga. Living in the sea and on land, Carracosta has incredibly strong jaws and is capable of destroying a giant boulder with one powerful slap.

This concludes the entries from the Best Wishes series.

In the manga

In the Pokémon RéBURST manga

In the Pokémon Adventures manga

Marshal owned a Tirtouga sometime before arriving in Nimbasa City. Because of its hard-to-control nature, he released it the day before meeting Black and White. It was later captured by Black and named Goura. It later evolved into Carracosta.

Trivia

Origin

Carracosta appears to draw inspiration from Archelon, the largest known species of sea turtle from the Late Cretaceous period. The fact it eats steel beams draws from the fact that sea turtles are able to bend metal bars with their jaws.

Name origin

Carracosta may be a combination of carapace (a hard, protective covering, ie. a shell) and costa (Latin, Spanish and Portuguese for coast, a reference to its habitat). Carra may also refer to the Carrara fossil formation, which contains numerous trilobite fossils.